Stephen Monticelli

Momentum stalled during the civil rights era to the extent that an Alabama state justice, Roy Moore, suffered ridicule when he placed, without authorization, a self-funded 5,280-pound monument in the rotunda of a judicial building housing the state's Supreme Court in 2001. The monument was ordered removed two years later.

But once fringe figures like Moore have moved closer to the American political mainstream because of the influence of people like Barton, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, and their allies.

But once fringe figures like Moore have moved closer to the American political mainstream because of the influence of people like Barton, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, and their allies.

But once fringe figures like Moore have moved closer to the American political mainstream because of the influence of people like Barton, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, and their allies.

On January 29th of this year, Trump issued an executive order mandating the withdrawal of federal dollars from any public school that allegedly imprints, quote, anti-American, subversive, harmful and false ideologies on our nation's children.

On January 29th of this year, Trump issued an executive order mandating the withdrawal of federal dollars from any public school that allegedly imprints, quote, anti-American, subversive, harmful and false ideologies on our nation's children.

On January 29th of this year, Trump issued an executive order mandating the withdrawal of federal dollars from any public school that allegedly imprints, quote, anti-American, subversive, harmful and false ideologies on our nation's children.

This could include teaching them about transgender identity, providing services to trans students, or educating students about America's long, bloody promotion of white supremacy, homophobia, or transphobia. The order also requires public schools to provide quote-unquote patriotic education.

This could include teaching them about transgender identity, providing services to trans students, or educating students about America's long, bloody promotion of white supremacy, homophobia, or transphobia. The order also requires public schools to provide quote-unquote patriotic education.

This could include teaching them about transgender identity, providing services to trans students, or educating students about America's long, bloody promotion of white supremacy, homophobia, or transphobia. The order also requires public schools to provide quote-unquote patriotic education.

Those like Trump, Barton, and others who have clamored the loudest about schools as centers of indoctrination are now imposing their own form of propaganda, returning history classes from kindergarten to graduate schools to the days of the 1920s and the 1930s when textbook writers praised fascist dictators for keeping unions in their place and those willing to die to end slavery were painted as the bad guys.

Those like Trump, Barton, and others who have clamored the loudest about schools as centers of indoctrination are now imposing their own form of propaganda, returning history classes from kindergarten to graduate schools to the days of the 1920s and the 1930s when textbook writers praised fascist dictators for keeping unions in their place and those willing to die to end slavery were painted as the bad guys.

Those like Trump, Barton, and others who have clamored the loudest about schools as centers of indoctrination are now imposing their own form of propaganda, returning history classes from kindergarten to graduate schools to the days of the 1920s and the 1930s when textbook writers praised fascist dictators for keeping unions in their place and those willing to die to end slavery were painted as the bad guys.

Thanks to Betsy Freehoff for reading passages from textbooks, and to Dan Glass for reading quotes from the Founding Fathers. Of course, thanks to you for listening. Thank you.

Thanks to Betsy Freehoff for reading passages from textbooks, and to Dan Glass for reading quotes from the Founding Fathers. Of course, thanks to you for listening. Thank you.

Thanks to Betsy Freehoff for reading passages from textbooks, and to Dan Glass for reading quotes from the Founding Fathers. Of course, thanks to you for listening. Thank you.